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The Grouville Hoard
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I've always missed something...
Can't believe I missed this:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouville_Hoard
"Mead and Miles started metal detecting in the area where the hoard was reported in the early 1980s after they heard about a farmer who some years earlier had discovered a number of silver coins in an earthenware pot while pulling out a tree from a hedgerow. However, as they did not know the exact location of the find, and as the current owner of the farm would only allow them to metal detect once a year for 10–15 hours after the crops had been harvested, it took about 30 years before they eventually managed to locate the hoard."
Snowball Earth
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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The theory that the earth at one or several points in it's history was completely frozen over and covered in ice.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
This is of interest to our intrepid prospector as it suggests glaciation may have shifted a great many precious gems and minerals from their original settings...
The murder heat dome...
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It's begun. Highs today, 34, hot, plenty hot enough with an intolerable humidity. I've drawn all the blinds in the apartment, and today, finally, turned on the AC for a few hours. A deliciously cool 17 degrees, although I don't know if we ever got there, only that it was cool, it never stopped running.
The next few days, hot and hotter. The afternoon, hide in the half-light of the apartment with the AC on high, it makes it liveable, although the drawn-blinds, they remind me of visiting grandma in Moose Jaw when I was a kid, all the blinds drawn, 40 degrees outside, you were damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-didn't....
Not happy memories, just memories.
The murder heat dome has just begun...
Running down that hill...
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Thursday, hot. Hot hot hot, the murderous "heat dome" is soon to arrive.
I need to feel the wind in my hair, get out of town, it's my day off.
And so, climb that hill and find my car. It's a little stale, dusty inside, but - damn, for better or for worse it's still there.
So I call the BCAA, ask for a boost. 90 minutes.
I daren't walk down to Baker and grab a soft drink, although very badly I need one, merely find some shade and wait for the boost.
They take the full 90 minutes and then some to arrive. Then, just like that, "boof" and it's running. A little rough, old gas, oil probably settled in the pan, but - hey, and I get the driver to drop my hood and I'm going to make a break for it...
Only there isn't enough room, and the transmission's slipping and I come to a halt half in the roadway and an inch from the truck in front of me's bumper...
There's no chance it'll slip into reverse without rolling forward and hitting the bumper of the truck.
So let's look at the truck.
I'm an inch away. Not 2 inches, not 4, literally a single inch.
The truck, brand new, lifted, brand new off-road tires, boilerplate splash guards for their oversized lifted tires, immaculate paint job, black, not a scratch on the thing. I doubt very much this thing has ever even jumped a curb, let alone been off-road. Somebodies' pride and joy. And so I go knocking at the neighbors, somebody has to move their truck, please, only nobody knows who's truck it is...
After an hour or so I give it up. The car, angled into the road, will have to remain that way.
Later that evening I go back, the truck is gone, probably they saw my bumper right up next to theirs and realized what a close call they'd had. Noteworthy, the car's been parked, been meaning to take it to the wreckers, hence no insurance.
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I head back a few hours later, the truck is gone, but my battery is still dead, nonetheless slip it into neutral, roll it forward, park, I'll need another boost, not today, but it's close enough now to the intersection that no one can park in front of me, and next-boost, that will be the one that takes me places...
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